Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Drawing I did of my mum(Neo Lerato Gariba) and I. She keeps guilting me about never finishing any paintings for her lol I always end up hating them half-way through! Anyway this is inspired by old pictures of her and I .Tried to make it look like a dream. I'm slowly trying to get used to using photoshop mostly using pictures along with drawings(the fabrics used on the dress and the blanket are SouthAfrican and Ghanaian :D) .Hopefully I'll start drawing more layouts and actually painting in photoshop. Hope u like it ma! Enjoy.Critiques welcome.-GG

Friday, September 24, 2010

Trying to get into capturing moments between characters .Past few weeks have been pretty intense but I love it. Except the fact that I haven't spoken to some friends and fam properly in a while my bad :/.Drawing this reminded me of a friend , see if you can find your name in the image lol. Critiques are greatly appreciated .Enjoy-GG

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

More lunchtime fun with PS. Started to give the characters I draw names it's makes em' more interesting I find .This mischievous lady's name is Kami which I think means natural force in Japanese , sorry if I'm wrong lol. Critiques welcome.Enjoy-GG

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Queue Lil Wayne "Lollipop" lol. I'm sure loads of people have had the same idea . Drew a couple but I figured skittles(TM) are my favorite so might as well start with those.The grape ones are also my favorite ...no racial...More to come.Enjoy.-GG

Saturday, September 4, 2010

In an attempt to not forget my French I've started to listen to french rap again...Cuz I don't read enuf English books I doubt I'd pick up a French one. " La Belle et le Bad-Boy" is an awesome song by Mc Solaar(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwEH6LYr4-U) .Made me wanna paint a sad looking hottie wiping tears out of her eyes...I also wanted draw in another style. Critiques are always welcome .Enjoy.-GG

Friday, September 3, 2010

Soon after moving to France,Josephine Baker joined a group of Jazz musicians and dancers known as "La Revue Negre".They were famous for doing the opposite of the most popular type of dance at the time which was Ballet. They "broke" the form and broke-it down from the sounds of it lol. The painting was a bit bigger than the scanner which is why they don't have feet, I'll fix it when I get a hold of a better scanner. Critiques are welcome.Enjoy.-GG

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Getting more and more into Jean-Michel Basquiats' work after seeing a couple of documentaries. Didn't really get what his art was about before, haven't actually seen the movie "The Radiant Child "yet but I've seen a couple of interviews and I really want to. Critiques are always welcome.Enjoy.-GG